I desire to record my gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Sladen, but for whose active help and encouragement I should hardly have proceeded with the book: to Miss Irene Taylor, who, out of personal friendship for me, took down, Sunday after Sunday, all that I said, with an accuracy which, with a considerable experience of reporters, I have only once known equalled and never surpassed: and to my congregation, whose questions and speeches during the discussion that followed each address greatly helped my work.

A. MAUDE ROYDEN.

September, 1921.

CONTENTS

I.—THE OLD PROBLEM INTENSIFIED BY THE DISPROPORTION OF THE SEXES
II.—A SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM OF THE UNMARRIED
III.—CONSIDERATION OF OTHER SOLUTIONS OF THE PROBLEM OF THE DISPROPORTION OF THE SEXES
IV.—THE TRUE BASIS OF MORALITY
V.—THE MORAL STANDARD OF THE FUTURE: WHAT SHOULD IT BE?
VI.—A PLEA FOR LIGHT